books.google.com - A beguiling account of twentieth-century America through the eyes of an outsider, a remarkable inversion of the standard 'Westerner observing the exotic' travel writing formula. Wu Tingfang wrote this book at an intriguing juncture in history - aeroplanes and motion pictures had recently been invented...http://books.google.com/books/about/America_Through_the_Spectacles_of_an_Ori.html?id=dxIsqUGQNVAC&q=Chinese+laborers&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAmerica Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat